Jay Asher Quotes

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Laughing about something is one of the more accessible ways to approach a difficult issue.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It's part of our grief process. If we don't know what else to do, we laugh. That's a very real thing.

Comedy relieves you. A lot of times, we think we're the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic say, 'Don't you hate it when...' And it's, 'Oh, my God! Of course!'

I mean I'm one of those people that laugh at a funeral. And it's always the worst time, but there's always a place to find something funny.